L' amante bilingue (1993)

No American filmmaker, whether studio-backed lackey or proudly independent iconoclast, would ever consider basing a romantic comedy upon a linguistic controversy, and that is why the world should give thanks for the existence of foreign movies. In El Amante bilingüe (1993), a Spanish-made love farce with a title that translates to The Bilingual Lover, one of the primary characters is the Catalan language. Catalan is a proud tongue formerly wagged widely in the region of Spain that includes Barcelona, which is the picturesque setting of this delightful clash of conflicting patois and battling sexes.